Families and businesses in North Carolina continued to see promising gains from the 2018 state legislative session as lawmakers remained committed to higher salaries for educators and state employees, increased investments in public schools and a successful pro-growth jobs agenda. The accomplishments mark another year of promises kept by the Republican-led General Assembly to deliver […]

A healthcare bill passed unanimously during the long session creates additional protections for people covered by health benefit plans. The bill also contains protections designed to help smaller pharmacies compete with large pharmaceutical companies. “This bill will assist independent pharmacies by allowing them to provide more information to their patients regarding the amount of the […]

The North Carolina House of Representatives unanimously approved a final version of House Bill 243 — the “Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention (STOP) Act” earlier this afternoon, passing a comprehensive measure to address the opioid epidemic through smarter prescribing and labeling, better dispensing and stricter requirements for use of the state’s Controlled Substances Reporting System. Key provisions […]

With an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 109 to 8, the North Carolina House yesterday afternoon passed the “BRIGHT Futures Act” (House Bill 68) to accelerate the build-out of digital infrastructure in rural and other underserved areas of our state. Representative Faircloth co-sponsored the bill. The goal is to bring greater economic prosperity to more folks by way of a […]

A bill was been filed in the House yesterday in a bi-partisan effort to meet the vital needs of many North Carolinians by improving access to life saving oral cancer medications, some of which are the most effective medications on the market today. Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry has led to effective medications that were once available only […]

Yesterday, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed its version of the state’s budget for the second year of this session’s biennium. The spending plan cleared the chamber by an overwhelming margin, with a bipartisan vote of 103-12. Representative Arp voted with all of his House Republican colleagues for the Budget, joining with 30 other House Democrats who also supported the […]

Revenues for the current year are projected to finish $330 million above initial budget projections, according to the latest figures released by the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management and the legislature’s nonpartisan Fiscal Research Division. The latest revenue forecast also boosts projections for FY 2016-17 by $231 million above the certified budget. […]

[youtube_sc url=”https://youtu.be/oUgT0r4WRb8″ width=”590″ modestbranding=”1″ autohide=”1″ fs=”1″ border=”1″ hd=”1″] Those who think that one person cannot make a difference in the law have never met Laurie Powell. In this video, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest explains how, through her hard work, a new law was passed to help protect group home residents from sexual abuse. We first […]